From: "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@...>
Date: 2004-12-16T22:25:58+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rand.rb 0.9: Random access methods for Enumerables

On Thursday 16 December 2004 03:27 am, Maarten Boonen wrote:
|
| Just a very small test: (code below)
|
| -> third is your equivalent code, self[a], self[b] = self[b], self[a]
| seems to slow it down quite a lot.
|
|  >ruby test3.rb
|
| 1.272
| 0.571
| 1.042
|
|  >Exit code: 0
|  >ruby test3.rb
|
| 1.262
| 0.601
| 1.042
|
|  >Exit code: 0
|  >ruby test3.rb
|
| 1.302
| 0.551
| 1.041
|
|  >Exit code: 0

Hmm.. Interesting. Do you mind changing version 3 to use a tmp variable, like 
yours, and see how they compare again?

T.